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I have to admit I was not overjoyed at the thought of spending the Ravens’ season opener with the fourth-string CBS broadcasting team of Spero Dedes and Solomon Wilcots. But I only wish now that the Ravens had done as well Sunday as Wilcots, Dedes and CBS Sports did. While the Ravens lost 23-16 to the Cincinnati Bengals thanks to too many mistakes to even keep track of, CBS Sports had a solid opener from its revamped pre-game show with Bart Scott and Tony Gonzalez to the game coverage from M&T Bank Stadium. Let’s start with the pre-game show — our first good look at the studio team after the long-overdue sacking of Dan Marino and Shannon Sharpe. Energy, energy, energy...

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I have to admit I was not overjoyed at the thought of spending the Ravens’ season opener with the fourth-string CBS broadcasting team of Spero Dedes and Solomon Wilcots.But I only wish now that the Ravens had done as well Sunday as Wilcots, Dedes and...

Colin Cloherty was a seldom-used tight end for the San Francisco 49ers, his third team in his first two years in the NFL, when the league locked out its players at the start of a long, contentious labor showdown in 2011.
A former standout at Brown, where...

The sight couldn’t have been easy for Ravens fans: Ed Reed wearing a Houston Texans’ hat and later holding up a blue No. 20 jersey.
For Reed, a Raven for 11 seasons and one of the franchise’s best ever players, it wasn’t an easy decision either. At a...

Ravens rookie free safety Matt Elam has only played six games in the NFL, but he is already aware of the split-second dilemma that defenders face while converging on pass-catchers in the open field and taking aim at target areas some feel are shrinking by...

Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta has waited more than four months to get back on the field. He certainly is fine with waiting a few more hours to make sure he's ready to go.
Though Ravens head coach John Harbaugh was noncommittal Friday about the tight...

Outspoken former Ravens and New York Jets linebacker Bart Scott is climbing the network ranks.
Scott was promoted to studio analyst for CBS' pregame show "The NFL Today" after starting with the network last season on its offshoot, "That...

NEW ORLEANS — The first time John Harbaugh and Jim Harbaugh coached against each other in the NFL, the game came down to a catch by a young tight end.
The first touchdown of Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta's career happened in the fourth quarter of that...

Ravens linebacker and future action hero Ray Lewis has done it again, making another hilarious cameo in a fake movie trailer for Funny or Die. Lewis appeared with Drew Brees in a Pepsi Maxx commercial, fending off a serial-killing Pepsi bottle, on the...

Week 16 is finally here, and after Monday night’s game, the fantasy football season will be over for most of us, if your season hasn’t been ended already. My teams went 1-for-5 on what I will now call Black Sunday, so the best I can do in my leagues is...

There are very few slam-dunk picks in fantasy football. For years, owning LaDainian Tomlinson guaranteed you a spot in the playoffs. Peyton Manning has been an elite fantasy QB for more than a decade. And though he's now in the twilight of his career,...

The comparisons are inevitable. In the 2010 NFL draft, the Ravens selected a pair of tight ends in Ed Dickson and Dennis Pitta. The New England Patriots also claimed a pair of tight ends in Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez. That's where the...

When Jamaal Charles tore his ACL on Sunday, any hopes the Kansas City Chiefs had of making it back to the NFL playoffs were shredded. The season-ending injury to Charles, a top-five pick in most fantasy leagues, is also a devastating blow to fantasy...

Desperation might be setting in inside your fantasy locker room if your squad is 1-3 or 0-4 at the quarter pole, especially if you’re in a cutthroat league where only four or six teams make it into the playoffs. We have enough data to see that trends...

Bernard Pollard has never been shy about expressing his opinion. The Ravens strong safety solidified his reputation for speaking candidly during an interview today at the Ravens complex and earlier in the day on Thursday during an appearance on 98.5 The...

The Ravens' defensive preparations for Sunday's game at M&T Bank Stadium don't have a singular focus because of the Cowboys' formidable skill players.However, accomplished tight end Jason Witten is an obvious priority.Witten has already caught 21...

Every morning, Monday through Friday, blogger Matt Vensel will hook you up with reading material -- mostly on the Ravens but with some other Baltimore sports stuff, too -- to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday....

Aside from an uncharacteristic 157-yard outburst by the Philadelphia Eagles' Brent Celek in Week 2, the Ravens have succeeded at containing opposing tight ends this season. Only one has caught a touchdown, the Houston Texans' Owen Daniels, and none...

Every morning, Monday through Friday, blogger Matt Vensel will hook you up with reading material -- mostly on the Ravens but with some other Baltimore sports stuff, too -- to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday....

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